White House officials have expressed pique with what they consider heavy coverage of Obama critics by opinion shows on the news channel.
Obama aides showed their displeasure by omitting “Fox News Sunday” when the president granted interviews last month to the other Sunday shows.
AP Poll: Health care overhaul has a pulse
The latest Associated Press-GfK poll has found that opposition to Obama's health care remake dropped dramatically in just a matter of weeks. Still, Americans remain divided over complex legislation that Democrats are advancing in Congress.
State-Run Health Plans Garner Support
But one key Republican in the debate, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, cast doubt on the Carper idea. She favors creating a federally run health plan as a fallback option that would come into force only if other changes to the system fail to expand coverage as expected. "A fallback can work and would work, in the event the private insurance industry failed to produce results," she said.
Republican leaders oppose a public plan and co-ops, saying both would encourage a government takeover of health care instead of harnessing market forces to reduce costs and improve quality.
DOJ Won't Seek Death Penalty For Guantanamo Detainee
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Federal prosecutors said Monday that they won't seek the death penalty in the criminal case against Ahmed Ghailani, the first detainee from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to face prosecution in the U.S.
In a letter filed Monday, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan said they had been directed by U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. not to seek the death penalty against Ghailani...[excerpted - subscription required to continue]
What to Do With Hamas? Question Snarls Peace Bid
In the two years since it seized power here, the militant Hamas movement has undercut the influence of the Gaza Strip's major clans, brought competing paramilitary groups under its control, put down an uprising by a rival Islamist group, weathered a three-week war with Israel, worked around a strict economic embargo -- and through it all refused a set of international demands that could begin Gaza's rehabilitation.added by JCM
Final KC-135E Retires at Davis-Monthan
ReplyDeleteDAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. - It was a historical day on the flightline here, as the last KC-135E model touched down after its final flight.
The aircraft, which served the Air Force for more than 50 years, will now spend its days basking in the sun in the 'Boneyard' and providing much needed parts to the rest of the fleet.
Second?
ReplyDelete[repost]
ReplyDeleteObama 'rules out' Afghan cutbacks
US President Barack Obama has said his review of Afghan strategy will not look at pulling out or cutting troop levels.
Mr Obama told key members of Congress that he would decide on a course of action with a sense of urgency - but that not everyone would be pleased.
But a source said he did not pledge to increase troop numbers as his top general in Afghanistan wants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8293558.stm
Link contains a map of current troop deployments around the country. Gosh, shouldn't we maybe be trying to keep that stuff... I dunno... like, secret or something?
I give partial credit to Obama for at least, for now, resisting calls to cut and run.
Anyone know about this "Safeway" Amendment one of the House versions of the health bill has?
ReplyDeleteThe Axelrod-Ailes meeting is fascinating... Dare the Administration try and order the only 'renegade' network around?
ReplyDeleteOriginal , although not anywhere near an original format. There's a great example in "Dune".
ReplyDeleteThere's also an example in the National Lampoon parody novel "Doon". That's where I got this quote from:
"Why do you think they call that kind of song a 'lay'?"
White House officials have expressed pique with what they consider heavy coverage of Obama critics by opinion shows on the news channel.
ReplyDeleteDissent is the highest form of racism.
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Obama's aversion of FOX news surely has to do with pandering to the far left. Come on they have millions of viewers, what other reason would there be to avoid capitalizing on that?
ReplyDeleteThere's barely time left for critics on the news channels given how much time Obama is spending on them.
ReplyDeleteAnd the "Thread Non Sequitur Award" goes to... JamesTKirk!
ReplyDelete: P
That was reposted from the previous thread, in case OLT had jumped here before reading it. Turned out he hadn't.
ReplyDeleteBut just being nominated is an honor.
ReplyDeleteWe like you! We really like you!
ReplyDeleteIf you win, just please don't drone on for hours and hours...
ReplyDeleteIf you win, just please don't drone on for hours and hours...
ReplyDeleteIt ... can ... take ... me ... hours ... just to... complete ... a... sentence.
Maybe I should just sing?
I heard a rumor that CC is getting new digs? True, false, vicious lie spread by the blogosphere?
ReplyDeleteOrigin,
ReplyDeleteYep, our own place, no more rented space at blogspot. It will be a registration required, and we can hang stuff on the walls.
Running Bare is doing the code, CC the graphics.
So, this is just the FEMA trailer?
ReplyDeleteThanks JCM. Looking forward to it.
ReplyDeletetfc3rid - I was wondering about that lingering fermaldihyde smell.
ReplyDeleteNo, that smell is something else...
ReplyDelete[Pulling pin, tossing in grenade]
ReplyDeleteJonah Golberg's "In defense of Glenn Beck"
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/10/column-in-defense-of-glenn-beck-.html
I like Jonah, but I don't think this is really a very good defense. For one thing, too much "tu quoque". For another, the observation that "he must be doing something right, because he's driving the liberals crazy" is an insufficient as an argument. My two cents.
Running Bare is writing the code? I didn't know he could do that, wow you guys have tallent. Can't wait ...
ReplyDelete*shakes head* What? Where am I? Last thing I remember, I was clicking on the Laeticia Casta pic that OR put up and suddenly it's a half hour and a new thread later..
ReplyDeleteRunning Bare is doing the code, CC the graphics.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing the roofing, and grouting the tiles on the bathroom floors.
"is an insufficient as an argument" = is insufficient as an argument
ReplyDeleteUh, also, "Golberg" = Goldberg.
ReplyDeleteNote to self: Blogging while on conference call = not a good idea.
To make a link using HTML type:
ReplyDeletetitle of link here
Don't forget the space between a and href.
I resisted the urge to blog during class. I know they're not paying attention, but I guess I need to.
ReplyDeleteoh that's why they put in the astericks
ReplyDelete<*a href="link here".title of link here<*/a>
remove asterisks
Hey Lucius... Don't know if u saw yesterday but still moving down there... End of month for my fiancee... Later for me...
ReplyDeleteJust like this:
ReplyDelete<a href="link here">title of link here</a>
SmartCar named "Worst Car of the Decade" [so far, presumably] by two Cars.com writers.
ReplyDeletehttp://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1071/worst-cars-of-the-2000s/
(Sorry, turn, the hyperlink thingy is tedious! Hopefully it'll be better at the new place.)
hey, how did you do that?
ReplyDeleteHA HA HA HA... Worst car of the decade!!!
ReplyDeleteI guess the Obama-Mobile will be the best of the next decade then?
I'm assuming the new place will have a tip jar so we can pitch in to help defray expenses.
ReplyDeletehey, how did you do that?
ReplyDeleteMe? Instead of typing the < character, I used < to display a < character.
I typed this:
<a href="link here">title of link here</a>
And you saw this:
<a href="link here">title of link here</a>
That axtek looks like a gremlin, no wonder it didn't sell.
ReplyDeleteEnd of month for my fiancee
ReplyDeleteAnd now I have John Valby's hilariously offensive "When the End of the Month Comes Along" song running through my head.
(A little extra work on the part of the typist, but easier for the reader to copy-paste and understand than those "drop the asterisk" examples)
ReplyDeletetfc3rid
ReplyDeleteGood news, though be sure to bring your umbrella.
Lucius, no kidding... Lots of rain... Good for my line of work... Good when there is a drought, good when there is too much water...
ReplyDeletersn,
ReplyDeleteGood question, hadn't thought to ask. Have to check on that.
JCM
ReplyDeleteConsider it my own little stimulus plan.
rsrn, in the meantime, you can just send that tip money to me, and I'll make sure it gets to them.
ReplyDelete//
Thanks Captain, OR is right - HTML is tedious. I didn't know anything about it until I came here. Running Bare will probably code in all the amenities there was at that stalker sight.
ReplyDeleteOR, are you really one ofthe Madoff boys??
ReplyDelete/
I know just enough HTML to be very dangerous.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming the new place will have a tip jar so we can pitch in to help defray expenses.
ReplyDeleteI asked that same question.
I believe CC told me yes,there will be.
JamesTKirk said...
ReplyDeleteI know just enough HTML to be very dangerous.
Goes both ways. I know so little, that I too am very dangerous.
Origin of Specious said...
ReplyDeleteGoes both ways.
Hey, just because Kirk knows some HTML, doesn't mean should make assumptions about his sexual orientation.
btw, had anyone commented on the "update" to Zombie's article on Hays and Jennings?
ReplyDeleteOh dear. Looks like Kevin Jennings edited and co-wrote a book called Becoming Visible about the history of gay activism in which there is an entire chapter about Harry Hay! It is partly searchable on Amazon: Click here for a link to the Amazon “Peek Inside” feature for the book, and scroll to its table of contents. Or click here or on the small image above to see a clear screenshot of the book’s Table of Contents, including the chapter on Harry Hay.
This is not good news.
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ReplyDeletePhil & Turn,
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry but I don't have Josephine's email address.
Reading through my email, I'm beginning to think of setting up a rule that any missive from some of my colleagues will immediately be routed to the "recycle bin."
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of immense time sucks, I need to go off to a meeting. I'd best bring some reading material so as to fend off the desire to shove pointed objects under my finger nails when the bosses start spouting bullshit.
ReplyDeleteInternet buzz Bill Ayers admits to writing Obama's book.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kenneth, I think I will let WriterMom know then. Josephine should be given a heads up of what's been happening.
ReplyDeleteLucius:
ReplyDeleteThat Ms. Ives must be easy if your colleagues are sending her to you and she gets "recycled" Is that the new PC euphemism for someone who gets around?
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Internet buzz Bill Ayers admits to writing Obama's book.
ReplyDelete48 hour rule, to put it mildly. The sourcing is extremely thing... one blogger who claims that she ran into Ayers at the airport, and that he said this to her.
thing = thin
ReplyDeleteGah, I am nothin' but typos today.
Lucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteI've been watching the story at Zombie/Malkin (I'm really just waiting to see if the MSM covers it). I think the guy might get the axe before it even sees the light of day. Jennings is clearly into mixing "sexual politics" with elementary and secondary education. That's his political view/position, good for him. But there is ZERO chance that he's the best choice to be something called the "Safe Schools Czar". I'd prefer a retired big-city Police chief or a career (succesful) superintendent.
This guy (without even considering the Nambla quasi-association) should be giving lectures at Berkeley, not shaping the policies for all of American public education.
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ReplyDeleteKenneth and PP, I don't know this Josephine, but I did go and read some postings (somewhere) that I think you're referring to and they had her address there. How do you want me to show it to you?
ReplyDelete˙ʞuıɥʇ ı 'uoıʇɔunɟlɐɯ ɹǝʇɹodsuɐɹʇ
ReplyDeleteHi Phil,
ReplyDeleteI sent WriterMom an email yesterday & I got an answer today. She's in Israel at the moment with limited web access, but I think we'll be hearing from her soon.
Ayers authoring 'Dreams'? Eh, at this point I don't care... We have to deal with Obama for three + more years... Whether he lied about who authroed his book is irrelevant right now... Wait till campaign time...
ReplyDelete¡slɐʇsʎɹɔ ɯnıɥʇılıp ǝɹoɯ
ReplyDeleteOccasional Reader,
ReplyDelete"...the observation that "he must be doing something right, because he's driving the liberals crazy" is an insufficient as an argument."
I agree, because he drives me crazy too.
Spenser: Just click my nick and send me an e-mail. That would be easiest.
ReplyDeleteSpenser,
ReplyDeletePhil & turn were wanting to contact Josephine, so please contact them.
One big problem with the "Czars" is that without the Senate confirmation requirement, there apparently have been no background checks on these people. No FBI field investigation, probably not even a national agency check. Nada.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, everyone! Bit sleepy here, had to come in at 6:30 am for a conference call. Sheesh, you get a job and everyone expects you to work!
ReplyDeleteJust been reading and laughing my way through this thread. What a great place this is - thanks to the entire C2 team.
IF this report pans out, and Ayers really did write Obama's memoir, then his presidency is toast. Finished. Kapput. Here's why:
ReplyDelete1. Obama said he wrote it. That means he lied.
2. The book was praised as a brilliant piece of literature and launched his campaign to the White House. Thousands of people have admitted to becoming his supporters on the strength of that book alone. If Ayers wrote it, then Obama is a liar, not as smart as he pretended to be, and exploited people.
The collapse is going to be hard folks, hold onto your hats. He's not going to recover from this.
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ReplyDeleteNow that was trick ...
I'm sorry but I don't have Josephine's email address.
ReplyDeleteok, who's Josephine?
Kenneth - the true believers aren't going to care, if they ever even hear about it through their left-wing-sources-only bubble.
ReplyDeleteAnd if they do hear about it, they'll just declare that the book is, quote, "fake but accurate", unquote.
Kenneth said...
ReplyDeleteIF this report pans out, and Ayers really did write Obama's memoir, then his presidency is toast. Finished. Kapput. Here's why:
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Do you really believe anyone will care? Besides Beck, I mean.
Only a minority cared about Wright/Pfleger/Ayres and nothing ever came of those relationships.
Just curious....
Later!
ReplyDeleteWithout the Senate confirmation, the czars seem to be getting a public confirmation instead...and it's not working out so well for some of them.
ReplyDeleteSooner!
ReplyDeletered, I think that is just that - internet buzz. No way ... however, if it were true can you imagine how devistating that would be come next election?
ReplyDeleteOnly a minority cared about Wright/Pfleger/Ayres and nothing ever came of those relationships.
ReplyDeleteThat's because the internet is full of subliminal hypnosis which removes all of those nasty anti-Obama thoughts.
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ReplyDeleteLOL
eschew_obfuscation,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately you are right. Obama's Marxist roots are right their for everyone to see. No one gave a flying f'. It's "racist" to bring it up.
Obama was at Occidental and Columbia when radicalism was chic, and no one really asked the hard question of who Obama hung with.
Morning russ, how is the adorable little puppy doing? I didn't ask you his name ...
ReplyDeleteOccasional Reader said...
ReplyDeleteInternet buzz Bill Ayers admits to writing Obama's book.
48 hour rule, to put it mildly. The sourcing is extremely thin... one blogger who claims that she ran into Ayers at the airport, and that he said this to her.
Of course, two or three posts pooh-poohing this will count as "right-wing blogs aflame with OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE of the day, sanity in peril, OMG".
JamesTKirk said...
ReplyDeleteFNORD!
Unfortunately, pointing the finger is all some people have left, and the only person I know who can point the finger at his own pointing finger is DEZ.
ReplyDelete/
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ReplyDeleteturn said...
ReplyDelete'Morning, turn! His name is King John, we call him KJ and a bunch other names from time to time.
JCM, you know Obama is actually a centrist Democrat.
ReplyDelete/since about two weeks ago, IIRC
Therefore, any "Marxist" comments are HYSTERIA!
turn
ReplyDeleteI don't doubt that Ayer's said it, but he would never admit it on camera and may have just been pulling her chain. Who knows?
OldLineTexan: http://www.amazon.com/National-Lampoons-Doon-Ellis-Weiner/dp/0671541447/
ReplyDeleteA furious Arpaio defying the Feds' new dispositions for street level enforcement
ReplyDeleteOn an afternoon news conference, Arpaio said “It’s all politics,” just to add that he already had signed the 287(g) agreement, and that the federal changes won’t stop him, warning that if he can’t lock up undocumented immigrants, or if they are released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE,) he’ll drive them south of the border himself.
King John, precious ...
ReplyDeleteObama wrote the damned book, IMO.
ReplyDeleteNo one else but Chrissy Matthews could take that much Obama but Obama. Ayers clearly has the knowledge and the means to go 'splodeydope himself when under that kind of stress - and he's still alive.
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BBL
ReplyDeleteWork calls.
Sweet, I need a "Happy Holidays" gift for myself.
ReplyDelete/////
red,
ReplyDeletesome of the comments were hilarious:
"I met Bigfoot at a PigglyWiggly in Tuscaloosa once. He told me he wrote Mien Kampf. It didn't belief him either, until he did the goosestep down the produce aisle."
Spenser: e-mail recieved. Thanks a lot.
ReplyDeletersn,
ReplyDeleteALLAHPUNDIT has his doubts....
Bill Ayers to righty blogger: Of course I wrote “Dreams from My Father”
What’s more amusing? The fact that he’d tease a conservative by baiting her about the right’s Cashill/Andersen-fueled authorship suspicions, or the fact that the Examiner seems to think he was making an earnest, honest-to-goodness confession?
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Follow the link for the Examiner’s theory that being denied proper credit for the president’s book — which was published almost 15 years ago — may have finally triggered Ayers’s megalomania such that he could no longer suppress the truth during … a chance encounter with a blogger in an airport. Dude?
turn said...
ReplyDeletered,
some of the comments were hilarious:
"I met Bigfoot at a PigglyWiggly in Tuscaloosa once. He told me he wrote Mien Kampf. It didn't belief him either, until he did the goosestep down the produce aisle."
Good one, except for the "Mien".
Anything with Bigfoot is automatically funny.
Example: "My grandmother was killed in a car accident" - NOT FUNNY
"My grandmother was killed in a collision with Bigfoot goosestepping down the produce aisle" - FUNNY
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Did Obama write his book? Does any celebrity/politician/self-absorbed narcissist ever write their own book? I'm picky about reading "auto" biographies, I want to read the person's words and their voice, not some ghost writer.
ReplyDeleteTest...
ReplyDeleteI flunked
ReplyDeleteI believe it will matter now because the wall of media solidarity around Obama is not as opaque as it was during the election. We are starting to see op-eds in the Washington Post & elsewhere critical of him, many blogs critical of him. The book thing cuts deep into his credibility and undermines his entire persona. Obama is nothing without the myth of Obama.
ReplyDeleteTest passed!
ReplyDeleteLincolntf said...
ReplyDeleteI'd prefer a retired big-city Police chief or a career (succesful) superintendent.
You should send the Obama Administration an invoice for that fine advise.
Kenneth...
ReplyDeleteI can understand you viewpoint regarding the redibility of Obama and his 'story' but I think that too many people would buy a meme that it really doesn't matter even if it proves us nutball righties true regarding the closeness of the Ayers-Obama relationship...
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ReplyDeleteKenneth,
ReplyDeleteI would love for you to be right.......
But the MFMSM is still in the bag and 75% of people still get their new from The Perky One, Brokejaw, and The Brain.
Russ,
ReplyDeleteWhen a celebrity has a ghost writer they always mention it on the book cover. Obama made no such acknowledgment. A big part of the Obama myth is how clever and poetic he is to have written such a fine book. He also denied knowing Ayers, which looks pretty damned stupid since it's now obvious he knows Ayers pretty well.
Hello?
ReplyDeleteHey, poteen.
ReplyDeleteDamn, I'm still 'sixpee' with no avatar.
ReplyDeletePoteen
Ayers is just this guy that lives on the block.
ReplyDeleteKenneth...
ReplyDeleteThe Emporer has no clothes...
We all know this and acknowledge this but until it gains traction in the MSM, it will always turn into a right-wing nut theory...
Hello there typepad i.d. Welcome to the blog. :)
ReplyDelete˙ʞuıɥʇ ı 'uoıʇɔunɟlɐɯ ɹǝʇɹodsuɐɹʇ
ReplyDeleteThat's 6PO.
ReplyDeleteTwice as cool as 3PO.
Hi Poteen, that was an excellent post.
ReplyDelete"Let the General take his shot, sez I"
me too ...
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ReplyDeleteI have wordpress and typepad and I can't seem to make either work here consistantly. Damn 'puters.
ReplyDeleteCheck behind the keyboard for a loose nut.
ReplyDeleteThat's usually my problem.
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ReplyDeleteI have wordpress and typepad and I can't seem to make either work here consistantly. Damn 'puters.
ReplyDeleteyou can try a google account ... worked for me
Real had Pink Freud fix it.
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ReplyDeleteHello all. Sixpee here. Thanks for having me.
ReplyDeleteI love Blackfive. They know their stuff, get stories right and Uncle Jimbo is a hoot when goes to anti-war demos in WI.
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ReplyDeleteAHA!! A loose wingnut behind the 'puter. Lets see if that does it.
ReplyDeleteMorning real, everyone.
ReplyDeleteHey real, try signing-in through google.
lol
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ReplyDeleteCrap! Are microwaves user-serviceable at all? Mine just started making really loud noises and work heat stuff...
ReplyDeleteSpenser;
ReplyDeleteYou can fix them but a new one might be cheaper.
Besides, if you screw up the repair you'll take out a whole city block.
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ReplyDeleteSEIU threatens a Seattle talk show host......
ReplyDeleteHey, SEIU go for it!
Discovery is a bitch.
I’m a talk show producer at NewsTalk 97.3 KIRO FM. I’d like to contact either one of you today, Tues. Oct. 7th (or someone else from SEIU) to discuss the looming Washington budget situation and the propensity for tax increases to balance the budget during the next legislative session.
SEIU is soooo nice in reply, not the least bit thuggish....
3. I’m surprised that Dori Monson would want to invite a “corrupt” labor leader onto his show (as Dori described him on his show last week).
http://www.mynorthwest.com/resources/audio_headlines/audio_player.php?a=10840&f=/kiro/2009/09/p_Dori_Monson_Show_20090930_2pm.mp3 (at about 7:20)
4. We will let you know, however if we decide to file a slander lawsuit based on that comment.
James, your correct.
ReplyDeleteMost MW ovens say "No User Serviceable Parts" and even a small dose of MW energy will cook your corneas.
ReplyDeletetnediserP A flaH - amabO
ReplyDeleteI just heated my lunch in a 70's era Amana Radarange. We like living on the edge here at work.
ReplyDeleteMost MW ovens say "No User Serviceable Parts" and even a small dose of MW energy will cook your corneas.
ReplyDeleteOK, thanks on the microwave advice. I'll stay away. Crap, we had stuff in line ahead of this right now.
ReplyDeleteDamn - how'd I do that? Does Firefox stutter?
ReplyDeleteRedstate;;
ReplyDeleteThe old ones are better. Ihave one in the back of my garage still working, heating up cheap burritos while I tinker. In the kitchen I've gone through six nice new MWs since 1978.
Maybe that warning was worth repeating.
ReplyDelete/very, very slight
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ReplyDeleteThe newer MW's are so much more efficient these days, if you have a really old one you should junk it - the energy savings will pay for the new one in no time. Plus the damn things are so cheap now days ...
ReplyDeleteRut-roe...there goes Reids, basically, full Democrap support behind the President in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteNow..how'd that happen?
enuff, from your referenced article, does anyone think there would have been a film "Rethink World War II" produced in 1943? I mean without someone being strung up.
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